A blog written in Brisbane, Australia predominantly dealing with Australian culture, news, politics and sport.
A heading like that is a guaranteed scrooge magnet. Several people have landed here searching for that so, below is some reading for you. I am paying off a house but couldn’t give a shit if property crashes because I’m not selling! Hell, I’ve just got the veggie patch looking good. Why would I move out?
http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/
http://www.crikey.com.au/Business/20080515-How-overvalued-is-Australian-residential-property.html
Yes. Thanks for the emails peoples but NO, I will not reinstate my facebook account. I no longer want invitations to join interest groups for whales, rare insects or stands of trees. Nor do I want to play scrabble, poker, blackjack or tiddlywinks. I don’t need to be invited to school reunions because unlike many people I went to school with, I have moved on and don’t need to look back at the ‘good old days’.
What an incredible waste of time and bandwidth! I maintain that if people concentrated on their actual personal lives as much as they concentrated on facebook, they would have amazingly fulfilling days and nights full of fun, frivolity and baby making.
I chuckled to myself when I saw the above sign stuck to a dishwasher inside a kitchen belonging to one of my clients. If you have a dirty mind like me you may find it amusing.
It doesn’t really matter who the president of the USA is. The euphoria of change will melt away quickly just like it did after Rudd’s victory in Australia.
Good alternative reading is The Birmingham News from Alabama, particularly this article and its comments section. My favourite comment -
I was born and bred here. Sixth generation Alabamian. And I just love this redneck place. I love the way we stay stooopid. I love the stoopid racist comments that fill these comment sections. I just love the way we stand up to the world and announce with great pride: “We’re dumber’n a sack a hammers and we love Jesus so God loves us more than y’all smart folks!” I love how we say, “Ain’t never gonna be no black person elected here! After all, our God doesn’t raise up competent black people. He don’t like blacks either. We’re not interested in the content of a person’s character, we’re interested in what color is his/her skin. ‘Cause we’re proudly stoopid!”
Well, I’m all facebooked out.
After a frenzy of farts, pokes, youtube messiness and catching up with people who I otherwise could NOT give a fuck about, I have decommisioned my great facebook experiment. My aim was to get to 100 friends and then see how many of those 100 would actually reply to a personal message over a four week period. Out of the 100 friends only 12 replied to a personal message. The funny thing was that 3 of those 12 were from mortal schoolyard enemies (from way back in the 1980s) and the other 9 were people that I see everyday or communicate closely with anyway. That was quite cool, otherwise facebook is a tool for social antelopes who cannot manage time nor actual interpersonal relationships with any great success.
While not a project of massive statistical meaning, facebook screams of fairweather friends.
I’m happy that facebook has emerged as a popular means of social interaction mainly because I do see a personally owned and edited blog as a superior form of communication for people who actually care about what they read online. Each blog has a purpose and takes time to prepare, whereas a facebook/Myspace entry are just pre-packaged personals with added advertising. It’s also funny that Myspace has had a huge reduction in traffic since facebook has burst onto the scene – something Mr. Murdoch wouldn’t be happy about I’m sure. The $100 a year it costs me to maintain an independent blog seems like good value for money.
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